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Christopher Bodeen, Associated Press | PostedMay 25th - 4:55am

The U.S. ambassador to China urged Beijing to engage in substantive dialogue with exiled Tibetan Buddhist leader the Dalai Lama during a visit to the Himalayan region over the past week, the U.S. Embassy said Saturday.

Vanessa Gera, Associated Press | PostedMay 25th - 1:49am

Poland thought it had started confronting the problem of clerical abuse and its cover-up by church authorities. Then a bombshell came: A documentary with victim testimony so harrowing it has forced an unprecedented reckoning with pedophile priests in one of Europe's most deeply Catholic societies.

Jonathan Mattise, Associated Press | PostedMay 24th - 11:26pm

Minister Joey Spann watched Friday as 27-year-old Emanuel Kidega Samson was convicted of first-degree murder for killing one person and wounding seven others when he sprayed Spann's church and its congregants with bullets in 2017.

A Massachusetts priest who was defrocked for child sexual abuse and was portrayed in the movie "Spotlight" is going to prison for a second time — this time in Maine.

Andrew Selsky, Associated Press | PostedMay 24th - 4:37pm

A judge on Friday ordered an Oregon man to learn about the Sikh religion and submit a report to the court as part of his sentence for an attack on a Sikh shopkeeper in Salem, a civil rights group said.

The Associated Press | PostedMay 24th - 9:32am

The Latest on the Michigan attorney general's investigation of clergy abuse within the Catholic Church (all times local):

Jeff Karoub, Associated Press | PostedMay 24th - 8:35am

Michigan prosecutors announced Friday that five former Catholic priests are facing sexual abuse charges as part of the state attorney general's ongoing investigation into clergy abuse going back decades.

The Associated Press | PostedMay 24th - 5:12am

The umbrella group of Catholic nuns is urging religious sisters around the world to speak out about sexual abuse by priests and other abuses of power that they experience, while also announcing new initiatives to protect children in their care.